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Consistent BSODs, Inconsistent STOP codes, and more
So, I've had a chronic problem with this desktop computer that a friend of mine helped me build. It's a Giga-Byte GA-EP43-UD3L motherboard [system specs are listed in the My System Specs at the bottom]. I've seen BSODs (and recently a Green one...) and all sorts of stuff, so I left it laying around for me to deal with later.
Now, it's later, and I've been trying to fix it. I thought I made progress when I tried to turn it on one day, and it started beeping at me. When I looked up what that could be, it was suggested that I try removing a RAM chip. That appeared to fix the problem, so I went on to order more RAM. (I was able, and still am able—depending on which RAM chips and slots I use—to run Win 7 [turning off Aero] on 2gb RAM).
I ran into a Green Screen of Death recently but that was while I was on just the 2GB RAM. I actually tried taking off and resetting everything on the motherboard I could. So, I took off the video card, all the RAM chips, the heatsink, and CPU. Then I reapplied thermal paste to the CPU and heatsink, put them back in, the video card back in, and now I'm here fiddling with the RAM chips.
Right now, if I unplug all the RAM and try to boot, I get 10 long beeps and no display. If I plug in 1 of my 4 RAM chips, it will boot up entirely. If I plug in a different one, to the same slot, I get like 38ish short-fast beeps on repeat. I JUST bought this RAM chip too. Right now, it appears half work and the other two don't. But I find that odd, because the first two I had were working for quite a while. Now it appears one of them doesn't work and one of the new ones I ordered doesn't work.
If I plug in the two that should be working to the first and second RAM slots, it fails to display anything and after about 30 seconds I get the quick beeps again. If I try the first and third slots, it boots. If I try the first and fourth, it also boots. If I leave those there and put one of the chips I'm not so sure about in the third slot, it appears to boot, but I get no display.
Once, after using it for about 6 hours with 4GB of RAM (slots 1 & 4), I got a green screen of death while running a video game emulator (NO$GBA). Then later I got a BSOD.
I had been running Driver Verifier, as I'd heard might help find a cause if there was one. Earlier while using it, it pointed at snapman.sys, so I went and uninstalled Acronis, which seemed to fix that. But, after running the emulator [NO$GBA.EXE] (both because that seems to help it happen sooner, and because I wanted to use it), it happened again.
So, I'm attaching the BSOD, according to the sticky. I ran the jcgiff2 thing last night, so I'll include a zip of that one in (BSOD_jcgriff_1) as well. I think one happened over night while I wasn't doing anything, as well, so I'm including one that I just finished running, along with the performance report (in BSOD_jcgriff_2).
Oh, and one more thing. The reason I actually had to ask for help is because I just couldn't find an answer anywhere. I ended up reformatting my harddrive and reinstalling windows, but the errors still occurred. Granted, the errors were a bit different than they are now (that was around last year—the first time I started encountering these issues)
Thanks,
Brian
Last edited by Inserio; 10 Mar 2012 at 13:59.